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McGregor, who took up basketball only five years ago, is clearly still learning the game.

“Right now, he's adjusting to the way (referees are) calling the games in Division I,” Thompson said. “That's making him feel more comfortable. I think that's why he's showing marked improvement.”

McGregor grew up with eight siblings in a Nassau neighborhood that he described as “a ghetto.”

Surprisingly, UTSA's first frontcourt player off the bench said he wasn't much of an athlete as a kid.

He didn't so much as kick a soccer ball.

“My academics were strong,” he said. “That's the only thing I had going.”

Once McGregor took up basketball as a high school senior, his stock rose quickly and in turn received an invitation to join the 2008 Bahamas junior national team.

Subsequently, McGregor spent a couple of years at Meridian College (Miss.), then another at North Idaho before signing last spring with UTSA.

McGregor is averaging a modest 3.3 points and 4.3 rebounds for the Roadrunners.

The frustration of constantly getting whistled for fouls and spending time on the bench has been difficult.

“It's just something you got to play through,” he said with a shrug.

McGregor also is dealing with concerns back in Nassau. He says his father is ill, battling to regain his health after a heart attack that struck a few years ago. McGregor tries to keep in touch with family developments by frequent phone conversations with his mother.

“She just asks me about school and basketball,” he said.

Mom, Clarissa McGregor, recently expressed her concern with the Roadrunners, who at one point had lost 18 of 20.

Laughing, Edrico says the victory over the Bobcats made her feel better.

He tells her not to worry.

“The season ain't over yet,” he said. “That's how I always look at it. ... Like the coach says, 'We just have to stay together as a unit, make plays and try to win games.'”